We had our annual apple picking event at a local orchard yesterday! Every Saturday in September, the orchard is open for people to pick their own — and while they sell the apples really cheap, they are even cheaper when you pick them yourself! And of course, apples fresh off the tree are delicious!
We were joined by friends B & J and their dog. We finished up picking just in time before the rain set in in earnest, and then retired home to start baking apple pie.
Dressed for rain, enjoying an apple fresh off the tree.
First pie. It fell apart after cutting it up, but that didn't really detract from the taste!
Half an hour drive away is the city of Den Bosch. Their regional speciality is Bossche Bollen, a choux filled with heavy whipped cream and coated with chocolate. They are also called 'chocoladebollen' ('chocolate balls') or, phonetically, sjekladebollen.
We got discount tickets for a workshop to make these, and yesterday was the day! We met up with babarage, gertvr and xaviar_nl, and after catching up for a bit, it was time for the workshop.
Melting the chocolate into the hot syrup.
Dipping the choux into the fondant: take the choux by the underside, because that gives you the best grip.
Meanwhile, we whipped the cream (by hand!). They use 40% fat cream, which makes for a bit of a heavier cream.
The choux with the chocolate layer, ready to be filled!
Done! You present them with the chocolate side up, of course, but you eat them upside down, because otherwise every bite would force out the whipped cream down the underside, and that just makes a mess.
We regularly go to a culinary wholesaler: we got a card from klik's company, and we regularly get supplies there that are cheaper than at the grocery store, or things that you can't even get at our regular grocery. The previous time we were there, I saw a molecular gastronomy kit to create 'pearls' of foodstuffs using agar-agar, and There are two more of those little kits: one to create foam and one to create 'spaghetti'. I put it on my Sinterklaas wish-list, because it looks really cool! Ever since, we have been checking out videos from that brand with cool recipe ideas.
I didn't get any of the kits (I'm not complaining: I got lots of good things off my wishlist!), and today we had occasion to visit the wholesaler again. I got the 'combined kit' as a gift for myself.
The contents of the kit! It contains everything to make pearls, spaghetti, foam and for reverse spherification!
I really look forward to experimenting with it. Here's some videos of the things you can do with it: make honey caviar, or chocolate spaghetti with the agar-agar. Or make some foam like Curry Wind. Or combine the gelling of the agar-agar with reverse spherification like with the Coco-almond Fondant!
Seven months ago, we released version 5.1 of our software. I can't recall how we came to it, but I ended up treating the team to home-baked macarons. That was so popular that a tradition was born.
Monday evening, we released version 5.1.1, so that evening we were very busy baking up two batches of macarons so I could bring them to the office the next day. This worked out especially well because two colleagues who have been away on sick leave for a longer time had announced that they would swing by the office for a little while that day — so I could give them the macarons as well!
Sift 100 gr of almond flour and 100 gr of icing sugar in a bowl, and add 40 gr of egg white. Mix it all up, and add your colouring. If you have liquid food colouring, don't add too much, I often do just eight drops, and that's enough. Hundreds of smurfs died for this dough!
Add 100 gr of (regular) sugar to 37 gr of water, and make a sugar syrup of 118 °C.
Add it to 40 gr of egg white that you have beaten into a really fluffy mass. Basically, setting 10 on a Kitchenaid for as long as you're cooking the syrup. Lower the setting of your kitchen machine and add the syrup in a small trickle. The heat of the syrup will cook the egg whites.
Now you gotta add the cooked fluffy egg whites to the almond dough. The way I go about it is to take a big scoop and just mix it through the dough rigorously. That will break up the egg white a bit, but will make the dough just a tad more fluffy so that it is easier to mix the rest in.
The cooked egg whites will make the colour a bit lighter, but it should be this fluffy consistency.
Pipe little rounds of the mixture onto parchment paper. Try to make them roughly the same size, because you need two for a single macaron, and it's weird if one is large and the other one is small. Leave some room in between, because the mixture will set a bit.
Next comes the drying. You want the shells to 'rise' when you bake them, and the trick is to let the outside of the shell dry out, so that the egg whites can only expand downwards, yielding the 'feet' on the macaron shells. We dry them in the oven at 40 °C for 2×30 minutes. We swap the positions of the two baking trays in the oven, so that they dry out evenly.
Then it's in the middle of the oven on 160 °C for 20 minutes. The blue ones did weird things: you can see the 'feet', but they came out unevenly. It'll have to do. The blue ones will be vanilla flavoured.
The exact time and temperature depends on your oven — you'll need to experiment a bit.
Next batch will be green, for green tea macarons.
They came out better than the blue ones. Our oven doesn't heat up completely evenly, so some of the shells have brown edges — that's not supposed to happen with macaron shells, but I can't do any better with our equipment. And would I want to invest hundreds of euros for a professional oven? Nah.
Just make sure that the shells are completely cooled down before peeling them off the paper. The outside should be smooth (not crunchy) and the inside a bit chewy.
Next up: buttercream. Make another batch of the cooked meringue, switch to the flat beater, and then add 165 gr of butter to it. The heat of the meringue will melt the butter, but take care that the mixture doesn't separate. This is also the time to add your flavouring. Some bakers use artificial flavourings, but I prefer naturals. So for the vanilla I used vanilla extract, and I used (food-grade) matcha powder for the green tea flavoured macarons.
When it's all done, put it in a piping bag and fill the shells. Seek out two shells of roughly the same size and pipe some of the cream on top of one, and place the second shell on top of that. Put the finished macarons in the fridge to let the cream firm up.
The finished result! As always, they were a huge success. The vanilla ones more so than the green tea — though I actually preferred the green tea, because the bitterness of the matcha really complements the sweetness of the shells and buttercream.
And with the release now done, I should have lower stress levels too, which is a nice added bonus.
When in Japan, one of my favourite things to eat is the tonkatsu: a fried breaded pork cutlet. On it's own, it's quite tasty: we've eaten quite a few times in the KYK tonkatsu restaurant at Kyoto station. They serve the tonkatsu with miso soup, rice and cabbage — and you can get free refills of those three too. But it also makes a perfect set-piece for a more complex meal, like the katsudon (tonkatsu gratinated with an egg on top of rice) or katsu-curry (tonkatsu with rice and the Japanese-style curry) — all very tasty!
Last time we were in Japan, we had lunch at a tonkatsu place. Their speciality was miso katsu: a tonkatsu with a special miso sauce. I really like the taste of miso, so I took a chance. It was amazingly good! The rich miso taste really complements the taste of the tonkatsu very nicely, and I was an instant fan.
So when we were making our menu, I looked up a recipe for miso katsu, and I found one — and it's quite simple, and we had everything needed in our cupboards! We did 'cheat' and got a wiener schnitzel instead of making our own tonkatsu. We used white miso the first time, but for the second time I used red miso, and the taste was even better!
It's quite salty though, because of the dashi stock that has to be reduced. Maybe if we make a larger batch, we can reduce the amount of dashi.
The miso sauce is spread all over the schnitzel, and it was amazing! We ate it with vegetable fries (carrot and parsnip) and pickles (daikon and cucumber). Definitely something we'll be eating more often!
Last Monday, I had a day off — originally to be on stand-by in case an update on the webserver for klik's work would go wrong. But that had happened on the Wednesday before (and went off without a hitch). But I had already requested (and gotten) the day off, so I decided to let it stand. Only afterwards did we realise that we would be married exactly 12.5 years on that day! So we had every reason to spend the day together and do something pleasant.
In the afternoon we went to see An, a sweet taste of life. When we were getting the tickets, we noticed a little folder about the movie, and it had the recipe for the sweets that are made in the movie: dorayaki, fluffy pancakes with a filling of sweet bean paste (which is called 'an', the title of the movie). The movie itself is nice, I'm not going to spoil it!
Then we walked around the city centre for a bit, stopped for a cup of tea, and then we went to restaurant Ivory. We had a wonderful dinner there — we'll be sure to return!
Of course, the recipe had to be tried out! We used store-bought an though (we've made it ourselves before, but it's kinda finnicky). The end result was delicious! Klik had baked some for a gathering she had today, and there were two left which we had as dessert!
There's an apple farmer close to Nijmegen that allows people to come to the orchard and pick their own apples, every Saturday in September. We've been there before, and we thought it would be fun to go again. babarage and her husband came along!
Apples! We got some instructions on how to pick, and were advised to pick the biggest and reddest apples.
Selecting the best ones to make into apple pie. That tree with the little orange fruit (which is inedible) is there to attract bees and wasps for pollination, because the flowers smell much stronger than the flowers of the apple trees. Every tenth tree in the orchard is one of those 'attractor trees'.
Our haul: eleven kilos of apples — a mix of goudrenet and elstar. Each pie would take about a kilo of apples, so we overshot our target by quite a bit!
Cutting up the apples. They were so fresh that they didn't even get brown after being peeled for some time.
klik putting the finishing touches on the finished pie. We added more raisins than the recipe called for, because we could.
One hour later: fresh out of the oven!
Cutting up the pie made a bit of a mess — no beautiful portions but more of a 'freestyle' piece of pie. Perhaps this is due to the extra moisture from the elstar apples. One day later, the bottom of the pie has gotten a bit soggy as well. One of the tips we got was to use baker's cream powder on the bottom to absorb the excess moisture, which we might try on a following pie.
We also baked a second pie for babarage to take home.
To supplement dinner, we also cut up some apples and warmed that up in the microwave. Smash it up with a fork (as fine as you wish, I prefer a bit chunky), and add a bit of cinnamon. Almost-instant applesauce, doesn't even need added sugar!
One of the cool things of having a semi-professional mixer, is that beating egg whites into a stiff mass is not really a problem: just pop 'em in the bowl, set the Kitchenaid on maximum, and within two minutes it's done.
pavlova! But instead of whipped cream, we used pattisier cream (using egg yolks and vanilla). The fruit filling was cooked up with a bit of agar and lemon juice.
It was so deliciously soft on the inside, with a lovely 'crunch' on the outside. The rich cream and the sweetness of the fruit really complemented it. I think this is a dessert we can serve with pride!


The Swedish Security Service (Swedish: Säkerhetspolisen [Nb 1], abbreviated SÄPO, until 1989 Rikspolisstyrelsens säkerhetsavdelning abbreviated RPS/Säk) is a Swedish government agency organised under the Ministry of Justice. It operates like a security agency responsible for counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, as well as the protection of dignitaries and the constitution. The Swedish Security Service is also tasked with investigating crimes against national security and terrorist crimes. Its main mission, however, is to prevent crimes, and not to investigate them. Crime prevention is to a large extent based on information acquired via contacts with the regular police force, other authorities and organisations, foreign intelligence and security services, and with the use of various intelligence gathering activities, including interrogations, telephone tapping, covert listening devices, and hidden surveillance cameras.
The Service was, in its present form, founded in 1989, as part of the National Police Board and became an autonomous police agency on 1 January 2015. National headquarters are located at Bolstomtavägen in south-east Solna since 2014, drawing together personnel from five different locations into a single 30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft) HQ facility.
The origins of the Swedish Security Service is often linked to the establishment of a special police bureau (Polisbyrån) during the First World War in 1914, which reported directly to the General Staff, predecessor of the Office for the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. The bureau's main mission was protecting national security (e.g. counter-espionage), and its first chief was Captain Erik af Edholm. Operations shut down after the end of the war in 1918, although some intelligence activities carried on at the Stockholm police, managed by a small group of approximately ten police officers led by Chief Superintendent Eric Hallgren, who later was to become the first chief of the General Security Service (Allmänna säkerhetstjänsten). Operations were mainly focused on monitoring communists from the start of the war until the early 1930s, when the service also began to focus on Nazis.
In 1932, operations were transferred to the newly formed State Police (statspolisen). The group of officers working at the State Police did not have the means to monitor phone calls or to intercept and open mail. This, and the general lack of staff and financial resources worried the chief of Sweden's military intelligence, Lieutenant-Colonel Carlos Adlercreutz, who felt the country needed a more powerful security agency if Europe once again ended up in war. Thus, in 1938 the General Security Service was formed, following an initiative by Adlercreutz and Ernst Leche at the Ministry of Justice, among others. The entire organisation and its activities were top-secret. During the Second World War the agency monitored about 25,000 phone calls and intercepted over 200,000 letters every week. In 1946, following a post-war parliamentary evaluation, operations were significantly reduced and once again organised under the State Police, mainly tasked with counter-espionage. In 1965, the Swedish police was nationalized, and all work was organised under the National Police Board in the Department of Security (Rikspolisstyrelsens säkerhetsavdelning, abbreviated RPS/SÄK).
The period between 1939 and 1945 was marked with extensive foreign intelligence activity in Sweden, resulting in the arrest of numerous spies and enemy agents. Some of the most notorious post-war spies are Fritiof Enbom, Hilding Andersson, Stig Wennerström and Stig Bergling. In all of these cases the spying was done on behalf of the Soviet Union and the spies were convicted to life in prison.
In the early 1970s, Sweden was rocked by a number of terrorist acts perpetrated by Croatian separatists. Some of the most significant cases were the 1971 Yugoslavian embassy attack in Stockholm and the hijacking of Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 a year later. The inception of the first Terrorist Act in 1973 was an immediate policy upshot of this, which among other things gave the police the right to deport people affiliated with terrorist organisations without delay. These incidents also led to internal changes within the Department of Security, which received more resources. On 28 February 1986, Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by an unknown gunman. The Department was not widely criticized, partly because Palme himself had declined protection on the night of the murder. It nevertheless sparked the resignation of the National Police Commissioner Nils Erik Åhmansson and the head of the Department, Sune Sandström, following the revelation of the Ebbe Carlsson affair in 1988.
The Swedish Security Service was established on 1 October 1989, on the recommendations put forward by a Government committee tasked with evaluating the Department of Security following the assassination of Palme. The new agency was—although still formally a part of the National Police Board—more independent, with its own Director-General and political oversight also increased. Furthermore, the Service took over the formal responsibility for all close protection tasks, which was previously shared with the National Police Board and the Stockholm County Police. On 10 September 2003, Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh was assassinated by Mijailo Mijailović, who was arrested two weeks later. The Government reviewed its procedures in the wake of the Lindh killing, which led to the doubling of the number of close-protection officers. On 1 January 2015, the police reorganised again into a unified agency, with the Swedish Security Service becoming a fully independent agency.
Counter-espionage – preventing and detecting espionage and other unlawful intelligence activities; targeting Sweden, its national interests abroad, and also foreign interests and refugees within the borders of Sweden.
Counter-subversion – to counter illegal subversive activities (e.g. violence, threats and harassment targeting elected representatives, public officials and journalists) intended to affect policy-making and implementation, or prevent citizens from exercising their constitutional rights and freedoms.
Counter-terrorism – preventing and detecting terrorism; this includes acts of terrorism directed against Sweden or foreign interests within the borders of Sweden, as well as terrorism in other countries and the financing and support of terrorist organisations in Sweden.
Dignitary protection – providing security and close protection officers at state visits, to senior public officials (e.g. the Speaker of the Riksdag, Prime Minister, members of the Riksdag and the Government, including State Secretaries and the Cabinet Secretary), the Royal Family, foreign diplomatic representatives, etc. As of 2014, the Service had 130 close protection officers.
Protective security – providing advice, analysis and oversight to companies and government agencies of importance to national security, in addition to background checks.
The Swedish Security Service became a separate agency 1 January 2015, and is directly organised under the Ministry of Justice. Similar to other government agencies in Sweden, it is essentially autonomous. Under the 1974 Instrument of Government, neither the Government nor individual ministers have the right to influence how an agency decide in a particular case or on the application of legislation. This also applies to the Security Service, which instead is governed by general policy instruments.[a] What sets the Security Service apart from other agencies is that most directives guiding the Service are classified on the grounds of national security, along with the bulk of the reports it produces. The Service is led by a Director-General, Anders Thornberg, who is titled Head of the Swedish Security Service. Operations are led by a Chief Operating Officer, reporting directly the Head of the Security Service. He is in turn assisted by a Deputy Chief Operating Officer and an Office for Operations. The Service is organised into four departments and a secretariat, each led by a Head of Department.
Säpo close protection officers surrounding the Minister for Finance in 2014.
Provides all support processes needed for day-to-day operations.
In charge of intelligence gathering through the use of secret surveillance, informants or other interpersonal contacts, and by use of information technology (e.g. signals intelligence). Included in the department are the regional units, which primarily conduct human intelligence (HUMINT) operations and offer local knowledge and support to HQ.
Responsible for security intelligence work, primarily aimed at providing the Service with data for decisions regarding security measures.
Deals with threat mitigation and risk reduction measures. Areas of responsibility include close protection, investigations, information security, physical security and background checks.
Tasked with providing support to management.
The Security Service's role in Cold War counterintelligence is referred to in the second and third novels of the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
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^ a b Swedish Security Service 2015, 'Yearbook', p. 10.
^ Swedish National Financial Management Authority 2014.
^ Rikets säkerhet och den personliga integriteten. De svenska säkerhetstjänsternas författningsskyddade verksamhet sedan år 1945. (SOU 2002:87), p. 15.
^ Swedish Security Service 2013, p. 8.
^ a b c d e f Swedish Security Service 2015, 'Yearbook', p. 9.
^ a b SFS 1984:387, § 3.
^ SOU 2012:44, pp. 114, 118–123.
^ Swedish Security Service 2015, 'History'.
^ "Kontakta oss - Säkerhetspolisen". Sakerhetspolisen.se. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
^ a b c d e f Nationalencyklopedin 1989.
^ a b Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 7, 9.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 7, 10, 15.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 9–12.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 15–16.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 16–18.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 7, 19.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, p. 5.
^ Forsberg 2003, Bilaga 1.
^ Swedish Security Service 2014, pp. 5, 35, 40.
^ Hansén 2007, pp. 47–48, 175, 178.
^ Hansén 2007, p. 163.
^ Forsberg 2003, p. 18.
^ a b Swedish Security Service 2013, p. 12.
^ a b Swedish Security Service 2014, p. 47.
^ Hansén 2007, pp. 89–90, 178.
^ Hansén 2007, p. 87.
^ Swedish Security Service 2015, 'Livvakter'.
^ Swedish Ministry of Justice 2015.
^ SFS 2014:1103, § 4.
^ Beckman, Olsson & Wockelberg 2003, pp. 19–20.
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^ Swedish Security Service 2015, 'Yearbook'.
^ Swedish Security Service 2015, 'Regional Units'.
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The way I heard it, a spokesman for the Mueller investigation stated simply that the report was not accurate. Simply that.
Not that it was partially accurate, not that they got it a little bit mixed up, not that it as anything but wrong.
Buzzfeed can stand behind it all they want, that doesn't make it any more or less accurate. Just that they printed what was reported to them in good faith.
In an interview, Ivanka tried to spin it a bit but essentially verified everything in the BuzzFeed article. Just like the Steele dossier, over the long run I think we will see that it's true on all the major points but a few of the details are incorrect. For example, Mueller has documentation that shows Trump and Cohen agreed to a lie together, rather than Trump telling Cohen to lie.
Mueller indicts Roger Stone, says he was...' stolen emails (CNN). And so it begins.
Roger Stone is to the Trump and Nixon administrations what Zacarias Moussawi was to the 9/11 hijackers.
He is the only member of Nixon's Dirty Tricks Team who never got caught or prosecuted. While other members have either died, or served time and went on to live quiet lives or host little radio shows or write books, Stone has leveraged his balls on ever bigger gambles against democracy, upping the ante like a card counter in Vegas.
Rumorhazzit that Steve Bannon is "Individual 1" in the Roger Stone indictment.
I don't remember Steve Bannon being in Europe in July/August 2016, but Jerome Corsi was.
My bet is that "Individual 1" in the Stone indictment is Jerome Corsi.
The Radio Show host listed but not named is Randy Credico. I wish it were Sean Hannity, I'd love to see that guy take a fall.
It should be remembered that the last time Roger Stone had the opportunity to protect Donald Trump in a deposition he folded like a cheap tent and implicated Trump. I'm trying to re-find a citation to the deposition. I don't expect him to hold up to pressure any better than Cohen.
I just saw an interesting report on MSNBC about the public wanting House democrats to get and expose Trump's income tax returns. Seems that at one of his two tax fraud trials, he claimed $600,000 in deductions for a business but could not supply the IRS with a single receipt or any documentation. On top of that, his tax accountant told the court that his signature on the return was a forgery! Trump got a chewing-out and had to pay it back plus a fine, but no jail time. I wonder if he also had to pay off the judge to get that sentence.
His casinos also had a money-laundering charge that went to court and was upheld. Again, no jail time because we don't send billionaires to jail.
A friend suggested that the ultimate outcome of the Mueller report might be the equivalent of Americans being patted on the head and told, "Don't worry about it, nothing to see here, just forget it. We will not be releasing it to the public at all".
If the report says that nothing was serious enough to warrant impeachment, it's a tough pill to swallow but eventually we would have to, and move on.
I guarantee you it's a sure-fire bet that the country WILL implode, and EXPLODE. If there is anything guaranteed to set off a bloody revolution, it's the notion that justice is not done to proven criminals in power at the very top.
It will be a sign to Americans that the law is meaningless and absolutely worthless.
I dare Barr to try and paper over the report. Watch what happens if he does. It won't be "leftist violence", no sir...it will be people from all sides who expect to see justice carried out and respect given to the law. Any attempt to even try to pull a stunt like that would be tantamount to the law itself aiding and abetting, and then covering up.
I seriously doubt that Americans will tolerate such an openly blatant and brazen disregard for core American values.
Again, I am NOT SAYING that the reaction would be dire if the report exonerates Trump and his crew, it would be upsetting but not fatal to the country. I am suggesting that if the report is deemed to be so bad that it is covered up and stashed away and nothing is ever done, it would set off a fatal reaction from many sides, from Americans from all walks of life.
And I point to Donald Trump and say yes. Yes they will tolerate just about anything and applaud it if it's their party doing it.
I personally think yall have been hoping for way too much in this investigation and are likely to be disappointed when it finally comes out.


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Punjab: Doctor, private hospital CEO arrested for allegedly violating PCPNDT Act
By Sanchari Chattopadhyay Published On 2020-11-30T18:04:29+05:30 | Updated On 30 Nov 2020 12:34 PM GMT
Jalandhar: In a raid, a doctor running a private hospital in Balachaur, Punjab, has been arrested for allegedly conducting an illegal sex determination test in violation of the Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnosis Technique (PCPNDT) Act.
The Punjab Police registered an FIR under the PCPNDT Act and the doctor has been booked under Sections 420, 120-B, 353, and 186 of the IPC and under Sections 4,3,5,6,18, and 29 of the PCPNDT (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act.
The act was busted following a sting conducted by a team of Health Officials from Panchkula with help of a decoy patient. The raid was conducted by the health official team comprising of Dr. Vikas Gupta, Nodal Officer, PNDT Panchkula; Drug Control Officer Parveen Chaudhary; an ASI and constable from the Panchkula police among others.
According to a recent media report, the trap was laid after the nodal officer, PCPNDT Act, Dr. Vikas Gupta got a tip-off regarding the illegal sex determination tests being conducted in the private hospital. Following the direction of the authorities, a raid was conducted in the facility by sending a decoy patient. The decoy told the doctor about her willingness to know the sex of the foetus. The doctor demanded Rs 35000 for conducting the illegal test.
Also Read: UP DMGE releases admission schedule for PCPNDT course 2020, Details
After the payment, when the doctor started preparing for the test, the decoy patient signaled the team. As per a report by Hindustan Times, the team suddenly raided the hospital and while investigating, they found that the doctor was performing illegal sex determination without any valid degree. During the raid, they recovered Rs 15000 given for illegal sex determination and they also secured the CCTV footage as evidence. However, the doctor fled from the scene, and one of his accomplices, a nurse also escaped with Rs 20000, reports the daily.
The team also found that the Hospital did not have the required registration and in fact, the ultrasound machine was also found to be unregistered. The doctor himself reportedly fled after hiding the machine. One of the investigators also informed that an attendant of the hospital manhandled the team when they arrived.
Dr. Gupta told The Tribune: "Rs15,000 of the money charged from the patient was recovered from the spot, while Rs20,000 is yet to be recovered. A handy 2 feet portable machine which is not allowed in the state was being used for the scans. Both machine and ultrasound center itself are unregistered. The doctor also could not produce a valid degree. The machine and the DVR box of the hospital (which has the CCTV footage) has been given to the police. The quantum of the scans which were being conducted at the ultrasound center will come to the fore after the contents are investigated."
Preconception and PreNatal Diagnosis Technique PCPNDT Act doctor booked illegal sex determination health department private hospital hospital raid ultrasound hospital ceo pndt act
Source : with inputs
Sanchari Chattopadhyay
Sanchari Chattopadhyay has pursued her M.A in English and Culture Studies from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. She likes observing cultural specificities and exploring new places.


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A Phyllis of the Sierras è un film muto del 1915 diretto da George E. Middleton. La sceneggiatura si basa sull'omonimo romanzo di Bret Harte pubblicato a Boston e a New York nel 1888.

Trama
Il giovane Lord Mainwaring giunge in California dall'Inghilterra. Vi si reca sia per problemi di salute che per curare gli affari di suo padre. Ospite di John Bradley, un ricco mercante di legname amico del padre, si innamora di sua figlia che si prende cura di lui. Quando Mainwaring le invia una lettera con una proposta di matrimonio che resta senza risposta, lui ne deduce che la ragazza lo ha rifiutato. Gli affari di suo padre vanno a rotoli e Mainwaring deve tornare in Europa. Minty, la figlia del fabbro, è innamorata di lui. Dopo che suo padre scopre una vena d'oro, Minty diventa una ricca ereditiera. Qualche anno dopo, si reca in Europa e, in Svizzera, incontra Mainwaring, ormai povero. La ragazza lo salva dalla morte e lo fa innamorare di sé.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla California Motion Picture Corporation. Molte scene vennero girate nella zona di foresta delle sequoie a Boulder Creek (California).

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla World Film, il film uscì nelle sale USA il 28 giugno 1915.

Note

Bibliografia
 The American Film Institute Catalog, Features Films 1911-1920, University of California Press, 1988 ISBN 0-520-06301-5

Collegamenti esterni

Film drammatici
Film basati su opere di Bret Harte

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